Summer Missions: Students have a story to tell of the nations

David McKown of McLennan Community College teaches a boy how to swing the bat. He was part of a team from 11 students who traveled to Madrid, Spain.	Katie McGowan of Stephen F. Austin State University and Marna Jane Williams of Texas Christian University pose at a beach on the Oregon coast during a rare break from their varied duties at Greater Gresham Baptist Church in suburban Portland, Ore.	Kelly Jaquez, an adult sponsor for a student team in North Africa, smiles with a Bedoin woman.	Sara Giles of Texas Tech University blows bubbles with a girl during a mission event in San Antonio.
Texas students take a ride on camels in a region that cannot be identified for security reasons.	Aaron Clayton, a student at Dallas Baptist University, discusses Scripture passages with a man in Asia as they share a boat ride. Clayton and a team of other Texas Baptist students participated in a cultural exchange program this summer. They were among 289 students sent out through the Baptist General Convention of Texas student missions program, funded in part by gifts to the BGCT Cooperative Program. (Katy Flowers Photo)	Chelsea Oliver of San Jacinto College and Jessica DuBose of Stephen F. Austin State University pose on a ferry with the Manhattan skyline behind them. They worked throughout New York state, including a subway ministry in New York City.	Katy Flowers of Dallas Baptist University hugs child she worked with in Southeast Asia.
Robin Hardy of East Texas Baptist University and Stacy Munday of Dallas Baptist University served in Germany, where they helped a young church expand its witness.	Christy Sansom of Texas WomanÕs University plays with a child at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Couer dÕ Alene, Idaho.	Krissy Kruse of Howard Payne University leads a group of children in East Asia, where she and her teammates taught English.	Ruby Mendoza of the University of Texas Pan American and Meredith Wood of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi lead a childrenÕs event in Lubbock.
One of the student summer missions teams sent out this year by the Baptist General Convention of Texas also was a baseball team. Dubbed ÒTeam Texas,Ó the 11 students from various schools conducted baseball clinics in the parks of Madrid, Spain. They focused on reaching the immigrant population of Madrid with the gospel, using baseball as a means to gain a hearing. Troy Watson, a recent graduate of Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi , helps a child learn how to use a baseball glove.	Chad Crane of Texas A&M University at Commerce stops by a Muslim mosque while on a prayerwalk, pausing to ask God to open the hearts of the people to the gospel of Jesus Christ.	Kecha Landry of Lamar University paints the face of a child at a camp for deaf children in Michigan.	Leslie Leech of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor pauses before a congested river in the Southeast Asian region where she and other team members built relationships with an unreached people group.
Rachel Box of Odessa College helps a child on the ropes course at Camp Fraser in Washington, D.C.	Robin Hardy, Laura Hoover and Aaron Clayton share photos of their summer experiences at the debriefing weekend.	Team Texas and one of their youth teams pose for a group photo. The group used baseball clinics to minister in Madrid, Spain.	Allen Avance of Tarleton State University sniffs a piece of cow tongue, a delicacy in the Southeast Asian community where he served.
At the debriefing weekend, students sat in front of a video camera to record testimonies about their experiences.	Rachel Box of Odessa College reads a Bible story to children attending Camp Fraser in Washington, D.C.	Drew Erickson of Dallas Baptist University and Reed Reedus of West Texas A&M University instruct a new believer on how to hold her nose during an outdoor baptismal service in Zambia.